In Focus: Photography from the Mills College Art Museum Collection
Not on view
1/20/2010 - 4/14/2010
Organizing institution: Mills College Art Museum
In Focus: Photography from the Mills College Art Museum Collection highlights the dynamic work of 30 nationally and internationally recognized artists in the Museum’s holdings. The Mills College Art Museum has been an important center for photography since the early 1930s, a particularly rich period of photographic development in the Bay Area. The Museum’s collection contains works by many of the preeminent San Francisco-based photographers of the time, such as John Gutmann, Ansel Adams, and in particular, Imogen Cunningham, whose images capture the campus and student life at Mills College. From vintage prints to contemporary images, the Museum continues to exhibit and collect works that epitomize photographic processes and experimentation. Featuring pieces by 30 artists, In Focus offers a snapshot of the Museum’s unique photographic holdings. Works range from images by pivotal photographers such as Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, to examples by artists better known as painters such as René Magritte and Arthur Wesley Dow, to contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson and John Baldessari, where photography is just one element of their multi-faceted artistic practices. Artists in the exhibition include Bernice Abbott, Ansel Adams, John Baldessari, Erwin Blumenfeld, Wynn Bullock, Paul Cadmus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Barbara Crane, Imogen Cunningham, Jay DeFeo, Arthur Wesley Dow, Olafur Eliasson, John Gutmann, René Magritte, Tina Modotti, Roi Partridge, Wilbur Porterfield, Catherine Opie, Gary Prather, Man Ray, Frederick Sommer, Alec Soth, Joel Sternfeld, Aaron Suskind, Catherine Wagner, Carrie Mae Weems, Edward Weston, Minor White, Catherine Yass, and Nina Zurier.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Opening Reception
January 27, 2010
Art Museum, 6:00-8:00 pm
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Aaron Siskind
(United States, 1903 - 1991)
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Alec Soth
(United States, 1969 - )
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Arthur Wesley Dow
(United States, 1857 - 1922)
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Barbara Bachmann Crane
(United States, 1928 - 2019)
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Berenice Abbott
(United States, 1898 - 1991)
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Carrie Mae Weems
(United States, 1953 - )
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Catherine Opie
(United States, 1961 - )
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Catherine Wagner
(United States, 1953 - )
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Catherine Yass
(England, 1963 - )
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Eadweard Muybridge
(England, 1830 - 1904)
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Erwin Blumenfeld
(Germany, 1897 - 1969, Italy)
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Frederick Sommer
(Italy, 1905 - 1999, United States)
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Gary Prather
(active United States, 20th Century)
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György Kepes
(Hungary, 1906 - 2001, United States)
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
(France, 1908 - 2004)
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Imogen Cunningham
(United States, 1883 - 1976)
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Joel Sternfeld
(United States, 1944 - )
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John Baldessari
(United States, 1931 - 2020)
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John Gutmann
(Germany, 1905 - 1998)
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Man Ray
(United States, 1890 - 1976)
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Minor White
(United States, 1908 - 1976)
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Nina Zurier
(United States, 1952 - )
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Olafur Eliasson
(Denmark, 1967 - )
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Paul Cadmus
(United States, 1904 - 1999)
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René Magritte
(Belgium, 1898 - 1967)
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Roi Partridge
(United States, 1888 - 1984)
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Wilbur Heber Porterfield
(United States, 1873 - 1958)
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Wynn Bullock
(United States, 1902 - 1975)